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Hereford Waterworks Museum Volunteer Wins Prestigious Award

Hereford Waterworks Museum Volunteer Wins Prestigious Award On 11 September Alex Rowe, 20, attended an award ceremony at the Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre where he was announced the winner of the West Midlands Museum Development 2019 Volunteer (Young Person) Award. A final year blacksmithing student at Herefordshire & Ludlow College (Holme Lacy), and the Waterworks Museum’s…

Mayor of Hereford opens new display at Waterworks Museum This year’s annual Gala Day at the Waterworks Museum (Sunday 28th July) saw the Mayor of Hereford, Councillor Kath Hey, unveil a plaque to inaugurate a new display with an interesting and unexpected connection to Hereford. The 1911 Hindley ‘Alcazar’ steam engine originally pumped saline water…

Over the weekend of 27th/28th April, the Waterworks Museum came alive with the vibrant sound and colour of Hereford’s third Steampunk Festival and some fantastic family entertainment, which kept visitors enthralled all weekend. Throughout the event, visitors (who included the Mayor of Hereford, Cllr. Sue Boulter) were entertained by brilliant acts of juggling, balance, illusion…

The Hereford & District Preservation Society traditionally makes a pilgrimage to the Waterworks Museum in Hereford on one of the first open days of each new season. This year it was Sunday 14th April, sunny but bitterly cold. Nothing daunted, society members set their engines and vehicles out in exemplary fashion with, as usual, a…

Opening Times

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September

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September Events
https://www.waterworksmuseum.org.uk/about/event/september-events/
All day
01/09/19-30/09/19
The Waterworks Museum - Hereford, Hereford, United Kingdom
The Waterworks Museum - Hereford, Hereford, United Kingdom

Not In Steam Days:
Every Tuesday: 11am – 4pm
In Steam Days:
Museum opens at 12.00 and is in-steam between 1pm – 4pm
September 8th Sunday: Museum open – all engines working
September 29th Sunday: Free Admission (Our Heritage Open Day) Museum open – all engines working**
For other dates and full details see 2019 Calendar and Admission Charges

Did You Know?

The Waterworks Museum was established over 40 years ago in 1974.

To create the Noel Meeke Heritage Water Park a team of 30 volunteers gave over 2,300 hours of their time.

The Museum’s oldest exhibit, a horse drawn fire engine, dates to 1805 and was used on the estate at Stoke Lacey.

The main Museum building is one of less than 6% of all listed buildings that is rated as Grade II*.

Volunteers run every aspect of the Museum – we have no paid staff.

The oldest part of the Museum is 160 year old and dates back to 1856 and the creation of Hereford City’s first municipal water supply.

The Museum’s collection totals over 3,500 items (including books, documents and records relating to the water industry).

Our working triple-expansion steam engine, which stands two-floors high, was built in 1895 and continued in use supplying water to Hereford until 1952.

In 2015, volunteers welcomed over 5,400 visitors to the Museum (a record year).

In 2000, the Museum was on the listed buildings ‘at risk’ register and at risk of closure.

The collection includes many important items of our industrial heritage, which but for the intervention of the Museum would have been lost forever.

The Museum’s display in the Rotherwas Building is the only permanent exhibition dedicated to Hereford in WWII.

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Hereford Waterworks Museum Volunteer Wins Prestigious Award

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